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It would be great to have these all as a full set of toggles on one settings page with "Fast", "Secure", "Paranoid" presets.

• imglorp 11y ago
  Secure is an interesting preset to think about. On the one hand, pulling patches automatically protects you from the nasties. On the other hand, it also leaks information off your machine which might not be what you want.
  • 5ilv3r 11y ago
    How about a scale of "Most private" to "Most up to date and secure"
• wlesieutre 11y ago
  You'd want it to convey that "Paranoid" doesn't mean "Most secure," which is how a lot of people would read that. A typical person against typical adversaries really does want automatic updates.
  • hackuser 11y ago
    Some of these options, such as disabling automatic updates, would reduce security. But some, such as DNS prefetching, impact only performance and disabling them would improve security (confidentiality is a key part of security), however marginally in some cases. I think a distinction needs to be made for the users.